Roadblocks--gotta love 'em

Over the weekend, that old movie The Wiz was on TV.  That catchy tune "Ease on down the Road" got stuck in my head and I got to thinking that easing on down the road is something we take kind of for granted, when we really should be appreciating all the times we can ease on on down, rather than having to take a detour. When I began this blog, I figured that I would just check in twice a week, and that would be that.  Then I had a bout of bursitis in my right shoulder, disallowing me from working on my keyboard.  There was my roadblock. But that got me to thinking about how unappreciative we all are of the things that we take for granted, like our good health, our abilities to do simple things like step up onto a curb, or in my case, easily put on a jacket, or feed myself with my right hand or brush my teeth. I am even learning to work my mouse with my left hand, even though my shoulder is on the mend, and I am able to do all those things again.  What that little bump in the road has given me is a new found appreciation for the things I do with ease, the things I can do without giving them a second thought. It has also given me a some new perspectives on the changes that we are coming to realize are not just a blip on the radar screen of our economic lives.
For the younger people I know who are just beginning, their lives certainly will look different from the lives of my generation, who went to college and could usually expect to find a job in our chosen field that we would do for a long time. But what an opportunity for them--to not be stuck doing the same thing their whole lives, to look forward to trying something new that might just be better suited, or make them happier. The economic times have made us recalibrate our expectations for the future. And it has made me realize again that the admonition that the end of something is the beginning of something else is true and putting your own good spin on it is how you are going to embrace that something new.
So no matter what your roadblock happens to be, whether it is pain, an injury, a unexpected change of circumstance, a job loss, even the loss of a a friend of a loved one, can have positive echoes in your live if you  only let it. It just might open up space in your life for new thinking, a new beginning, new love, new hope. As I was awakening this morning, the phrase came to me "all beginnings start after the end of something else."  So notice the endings and embrace them, even when they are had to accept and leave you feeling empty. The space that is there to be filled may mean new adventures, and at the very least new thinking.

Getting Started

It's always so exciting to get started doing something new, isn't it?  I have had a blog before, and you can find it at froggyblogging.blogspot.com, but it was really meant for the duration of a health and exercise program that I had won.  It was great fun and I shared lots of things I learned about taking care of myself on it.
This blog is going to cover lots of subjects, and what's on my mind as a coach, a professional, as a human being, a woman, and as a citizen of the world. What I am going to try to do is to leave you with a question or a thought that you might be interested in exploring that might open up a door for you to a new way of thinking, or maybe throw out an idea that might open up a new channel for you that you haven't really thought about before.  I am always reading and exploring, and I love to share my thoughts and perhaps light a fire for you that might just be the spark that lights your way to a whole new way of thinking. 
It is going to be an adventure, and I hope that you will come along for the ride.